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RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

Posted Dec 15, 2006 17:57 UTC (Fri) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899)
In reply to: RPM -- plans, goals, etc. by smoogen
Parent article: RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

> had to have a 'apt-get update' run before I could get useful information

What he meant was that what rpm does is LIKE apt doing an 'apt-get update' first every time you used apt. It does of course no this, as it is, well, annoying :)


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RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

Posted Dec 15, 2006 20:27 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

The first thing about yum that I learned was the '-C' (or is it -c?) option which runs it using cached information so it doesn't pull down new headers each time.

RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

Posted Dec 15, 2006 21:02 UTC (Fri) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899) [Link]

Neat, I did not know about that little trick, which probably comes from the fact that I have spent way too little time administrating a Fedora/Red Hat system :)

But thanks for the tip anyway.

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